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Chapter 10
"The primary resurrection" as the all-outshining goal of the Godhead's will for the terrestrial human being
So the secondary resurrection or Jesus' Easter-resurrection is not enough. It is not that which is Christianity's true kernel or basis for the mission of world redemption or the salvation of the world. It was the manifestation and demonstration of the "kingdom of heaven" that should come as something within the beings. It was not an occult or psychic ability to materialise oneself, but an ability to live in harmony with the laws of the universe, an ability to be a joy and blessing for the whole, the ability to be – not an inconvenience for the existence of other people or living beings – but on the contrary, the ability to be an inspiring, life-giving, joy-promoting – and thereby serving – source of life for all living beings.
      The content or essence of Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus was that the beings, through the principle of reincarnation, are "born anew of water and the spirit", thereby having the possibility of growing from a primitive, animal and killing form of life to the high-intellectual form of life dominated by love that constitutes "man in God's image". Without being "born anew of water and the spirit no one can enter the kingdom of God". This means that the human being must be born in a new physical organism fit for an attitude of consciousness and perception of life and existence as a divine manifestation of all-love. This new physical organism is thus "the new birth of water" just as the new attitude of consciousness is the same as "the new birth of spirit". This new birth constituted "the great resurrection" or revelation of the world redeemer's appearance on earth. It was not a resurrection that he attained only after his crucifixion, but was a "rising from the dead" he had already appropriated in past lives before his incarnation on earth. And it is the same resurrection that is proclaimed to all people under the term "the second coming of Christ". This second coming of Christ is the same as the being's appropriation of the life-experience of Jesus and the state of being "one with the Father" connected with this. It is this cosmic state of consciousness that constitutes the Kingdom of Heaven, which the terrestrial human being must aim at as his great goal for the future. It is this second coming of Christ we know from "Livets Bog (The Book of Life)" as "the great birth". It is the preparation for this great "resurrection from animal to human being" towards which all terrestrial people, through Armageddon or Doomsday, are now developing. And it is the appropriation of this resurrection that, as previously mentioned, is the all-outshining goal today intended by the divine will for the terrestrial human being. This resurrection can thus exclusively be acquired and exist as the total result of perfect neighbourly love and thereby be the only true Christianity or salvation of mankind.


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